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FantaSci Week and Cover Reveal!!
This will be my third time attending FantaSci in Raleigh, NC. It was the first con I attended as a professional author, the first con I...
melissaolthoff4
Mar 21, 20232 min read
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Knightfall eARC, The Last Argonaut, and Space Hyenas
A little over two weeks to go until my second novel, Knightfall Under Keros, releases!! The eARC went out to early readers, and...
melissaolthoff4
Mar 13, 20232 min read
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The Origin of the Salvage Bunny
Ever wanted to know how Kailey Jackson, AKA the Salvage Bunny, met the Lancers mercenary company? You're in luck! If you haven't read the...
melissaolthoff4
Mar 6, 20232 min read
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There are worse things than Confinement
LOL. . .could not resist the bad pun. Confinement was, in fact, a GREAT time. If Superstars was drinking from the firehose of insane...
melissaolthoff4
Feb 27, 20232 min read
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Salvage Bunny, Space Pirates, Valkyries, and Confinement!!
Wow, that sounds awesomely weird. . .or maybe it's weirdly awesome. Either way, that title about sums up my writing life. Last week, I...
melissaolthoff4
Feb 20, 20232 min read
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Brain Dead in the Best Way Possible
I attended my first Superstars Writing Seminar last week. When they say it's a fire hose of information, they're really not joking. My...
melissaolthoff4
Feb 13, 20232 min read
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Superstars Week!!
Two more days until Superstars!! I'm so excited to go learn ALL the things, see old friends, meet new friends, and get up to some...
melissaolthoff4
Feb 6, 20232 min read
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Let's Get It!!
Wow, what a busy, crazy way to start off the new year. So many things came together to try to punch me in the face, but I managed to walk...
melissaolthoff4
Jan 30, 20232 min read
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Getting Down to the Wire
Whew! January has been one heck of a busy month. Editing space hyenas 3, alpha reading for amazing friends, not one, but two short...
melissaolthoff4
Jan 23, 20232 min read
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We Dare. . .To Overwrite and Underplan
Okay, so January turned out to be waaaaaaay busier than I anticipated. Outside of the normal family, day job, life stuff, I had a lot of...
melissaolthoff4
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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Starting off the new year right!!
Nick Steverson called 2022 our sacrifice year, and it's a great way to put it. We each had a single novel come out (along with some...
melissaolthoff4
Jan 9, 20232 min read
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New Year, New Books!!
Happy New Years everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday season. I celebrated with my family, spoiled the heck out of my kids, and...
melissaolthoff4
Jan 2, 20232 min read
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Halo, Polar Bear Puppets, and Whoopee Cushions
That list sounds like the start of a bad joke, but those were the winners of Christmas this year. My son is obsessed with all things...
melissaolthoff4
Dec 26, 20222 min read
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Elf on the Shelf is EVIL
So today was the holiday party for my day job. It was virtual, so no goodies, but we did play some fun trivia games. One of the ultimate...
melissaolthoff4
Dec 19, 20222 min read
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Never Grow Up, Never Surrender!
Wait. . .that's not quite right. Hmm. Oh well, close enough LOL. Recently, my publisher asked an excellent question - what do you want to...
melissaolthoff4
Dec 12, 20223 min read
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Hawaiian Shirts Make Great Camouflage
So I just got off the phone from a two-hour plotting session with my co-author, Nick Steverson. We've got the final details for the last...
melissaolthoff4
Dec 5, 20222 min read
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Editing, the (not a) Cult of Midjourney, and a Cover Reveal!
It took me a week. A LONG week, but I finished my editing pass on Salvage Bunny 2! I sent it off to my awesome alpha readers AKA my...
melissaolthoff4
Nov 28, 20223 min read
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The Best Two Words EVER!!
That's right! I got to write THE END on the sequel to Sunrise Over Shippo last weekend!! Salvage Bunny 2 is officially a completed draft,...
melissaolthoff4
Nov 22, 20222 min read
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Whyyyyyy is it so COLD??
Yes, I know it's November, but I live in the south for a reason ya'll. It went from 80F to 35F in two days, and I am not okay with this....
melissaolthoff4
Nov 14, 20222 min read
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Happy Birthday To Me!!
I had a great time turning 29 (again) this weekend. There were cupcakes, and a hilarious unicorn gift, and my son was extra nice and gave...
melissaolthoff4
Nov 7, 20222 min read
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